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Time Warner Cable plans to concentrate on the triple play and explore wireless services in its bid to win customers from telecom companies. Time Warner Cable will also actively seek to sign up small and medium-size business customers for voice services.

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Suddenlink Communications and Telephone and Data Systems are among the small and medium-size cable providers that could be looking to expand their holdings in the wake of Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Mike Farrell writes. Charter Communications' monthslong pursuit of Time Warner Cable chilled the M&A market, but sources say it's likely to pick up soon, Farrell writes.

Time Warner Cable's MY TWC application now offers troubleshooting tools for residential customers to fix common problems with their triple-play services. The app also gives users the ability to receive updates on service problems in their area and access up-to-date details about their accounts.

Shared service agreements -- local marketing agreements and other similar arrangements between stations -- are little more than a way for stations to avoid ownership restrictions, and they make TV news less competitive while increasing retransmission fees and ad rates at a cost to viewers, according Time Warner Cable, DISH Network, small- and medium-size cable providers and other groups. The coalition expressed its concerns in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission as part of the agency's once-every-four-years review of ownership rules.

Cable carriers such as Cablevision and Time Warner are putting their marketing efforts into selling triple-play packages to small- and medium-sized businesses. The revenue potential is in the billions of dollars, and may have played a part in the decision to reject a bid by the Dolan family to take over Cablevision.